India’s intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has reportedly recalled one of its officers from Sri Lanka on Monday. The joint secretary-level officer Ravi Nair, a 1975 batch IAS officer, has allegedly developed some connections with a foreign woman who is said to be a Chinese spy.

According to intelligence reports came in media, the joint secretary-level officer, Ravi Nair, had managed to get bonus postings even he had been on the scanner for long. It had roused suspicions in the intelligence wing. This was being said that during his posting in Hong Kong, Ravi Nair had allegedly met a foreign woman and developed connections with her.

According to the TOI report, Ravi Nair allegedly enjoyed the backing of some powerful officials back in India. The report says that the woman believed to be working for a Chinese spy agency. The disclosure of the connections with RAW officer and a Chinese spy forced the Indian authorities to call him back to India and later sent to Sri Lanka on another posting.

But, after Nair’s posting in Colombo the woman also arrived in Sri Lanka and Both were staying together in Colmbo. Later, the officials at the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka informed concerned authorities in India about Nair. After scrutinizing the information about Nair sent by High Commission officials, the Indian authorities decided to call him back from Sri Lanka to India.

Now, according to other media reports, the role of some former RAW chiefs might come under the departmental scrutiny for not taking action strong action against Ravi Nair even after receiving the information regarding the irregularities done by him during his posting in Chicago and Hong Kong.

On the other hand, Ravi Nair has rejected all the media reports saying about his involvement with a woman with Chinese links. He called the reports as utter rubbish. He said that he is a dedicated officer working for the Government of India. He has been working with sincerity and dedication always.

There are many incidents in the past but most of the lady employees do not report due to fear of being sacked from service in the guise of secrecy," "The mindset of R&AW officers is reflective of a sex oriented psyche in which they are working operationally. Most of the agents whom they developed are entertained with all these ethnic facilities like providing prostitutes for sex. This sadistic working culture has
provoked many of them to exploit their own lady colleagues or they were exploited by foreign agents," the letter adds.
According to Yadav, there are numerous

On an official trip to Japan, the country's secret service complained to Indian authorities about Nair's misdemeanours with a geisha. His senior on the trip, B. Raman, who later on retired as additional secretary, RAW, put on record strictures against him on his file.

* With Nair's family life in trouble, RAW bosses had questioned the wisdom of posting him to sensitive stations abroad. Yet, Nair went from the United States to Bhutan, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and then Sri Lanka.

When posted in Hong Kong, RAW received a complaint from Nair's wife that he was "involved" with a Chinese woman, following which he was recalled before his tenure ended. Interestingly, it was the surfacing of the same Chinese woman in Colombo that has led to Nair's recall from there now. Nair, though, denies these allegations as "utter rubbish".

He was at the agency's Chennai office when his relationship with a lady identified as "Ms Rao" from Mysore started attracting attention. She would visit Chennai on weekends and stay with Nair at his official bungalow in the city. Following reports from the Chennai office, then RAW chief P.K. Hormese Tharakan, as home ministry sources informed Outlook, immediately directed his then second-in-command and the current RAW chief Ashok Chaturvedi to conduct an inquiry and take suitable action.

I can never imagine an Indian guy married to an Indian woman will be interested in any other woman.

However married life of an indian men is not that secure any longer. Is it because too much time spend on internet porn sites and Indian men get to see how other ladies look like underneath. What a shame.

There are many examples of Indian men falling for the charms of foreign honey traps. In May 2008, Manmohan Sharma, a senior RAW officer, posted in Beijing was called back to New Delhi for falling to the charms of a Chinese honey trap. It was alleged that Sharma was having an affair with his Chinese language teacher, whom Indian authorities suspected to be an informant of the Chinese government. In October 2007, another RAW officer Ravi Nair was called back from Hong Kong for his ‘friendship’ with a girl believed to be working for a Chinese spy agency. However, the most prominent case was that of K V Unnikrishnan, a RAW officer, who fell in love with an air hostess suspected to be an agent.

When you think about it, how easy is to hook an Indian guy- married or not.

KV Unnikrishnan, a RAW officer dealing with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). He had developed a relationship with a chinese airhostess believed to be an intelligence scion.

He was arrested just ahead of a peace accord signed between India and Sri Lanka.
Because Unnikrishnan was in charge of the Chennai office through which India channelled assistance to the LTTE, his job was considered â€˜super sensitiveâ€™. Because of his relationship, several LTTE boats had been trapped by the Sri Lankan army â€” which led to the suspicion that someone had tipped off the Sri Lankan authorities.

Finally, Unnikrishnan was arrested and imprisoned for several years. He was released without a court trial because of the sensitive nature of his job and the fear that Indiaâ€™s connections with the LTTE would become public.

It is interesting, whether guy or girl, always Indians are interested in Foreigners. Why can not Indians put a honey traps on Chinese spies or American spies?????

Gupta, the Second Secretary-level woman diplomat working in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad had been arrested for allegedly passing on information to Pakistani intelligence agencies.
She had been taking information from the RAW station head in Islamabad, which was passed to the Pakistani spy agencies.

This is not for the first time the officials in India's external Intelligence agency RAW have switched their loyalties to foreign agencies.

The most infamous case which shook RAW was that of Rabinder Singh who became a mole of American intelligence agency CIA and flew to the US despite being under RAW surveillance.

Singh initially worked with the Indian Army and held a very senior position with RAW handling Southeast Asia. By the time the agency detected his affiliations to CIA, Singh escaped to the US through Nepal in 2004.

Another blow came in 2006 with the discovery of another alleged CIA mole in India's National Security Council Secretariat, which is part of the Prime Minister's Office.

The last such case was that of Navy officer Commodore Sukhjinder Singh, now being probed for his alleged liaison with a Russian woman between 2005 and 2007 -- when he was posted in Russia as the head of Indian team overseeing the refit of aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov.

In May 2008, a senior Indian Embassy official in Beijing was called back to New Delhi for falling to the charms of a Chinese honey trap. Manmohan Sharma, a senior Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer, was alleged to be in a romantic affair with his Chinese language teacher. Indian authorities suspected the woman could be an informant of the Chinese government and gathered information about India's moves and counter-moves on the border talks.

In October 2007, a 1975 batch Research and Analysis Service (RAS) officer Ravi Nair was called back from Hong Kong for his 'friendship' with a girl believed to be working for a Chinese spy agency.

And months back, Sudhamsu Sudhakar, a former army officer was arrested for leaking secret documents for ISI. He was on his war to Katmandu to pass the documents related to the Indian army and missiles to ISI agents.

And the fact that most of these Indian agents who has been caught while spying for foreign nations happened to be from upper cast people and having connections with Hindutwa forces, may not be mere accidental. The Hindutwa forces who are trying to ruin the country through communal clashes and determined to abolish the constitution and to throw away the democratically elected governments, were collaborating with spy agencies of USA and Israel- CIA and Mossad.

The data retrieved from the laptops of Dayanand Pandey, who was arrested in Malegaoan bomb blast case had testified this unholy and dangerous alliance. And Pandey had confessed the Maharashtra Anti Terrorism Squad that he and his organization Abhinav Bharath had received crores of rupees from ISI to kill RSS leaders and to blame Muslims for the same.

Koomer Narayanan, Ram Swaroop who were arrested in 1985 for spying, K V Unnikrishnan, a RAW official held in 1994 in Chennai… the list of upper cast agents who sold our secrets to foreign secret agents still continues.

Even the most powerful Indian officers are manipulating the system. Then how can we blame a regular IPS or IFS officer who reaches US or UK adsconds Indian government. The truth is majority of these IPS officers and IFS officers are waiting for a chance to escape the country. It is the biggest conspiracy going on RAW offices - Who gets placed where? No body want to get places in Afghanistan. But everyonw wants to get places in US or Australia.

RECENTLY I HEARD ABOUT AN IFS OFFICER WHO CAME TO NEW YORK AND DECIDED TO BECOME AN INSURANCE AGENT. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? (BY THE WAY HE IS DOING WELL AS AN INSURANCE AGENT)

Forget about government agaensies. If Indian government can not even entice their own intelligence agencie official, how can India succeed.

NOW WHAT IS THE PUNISHMENT GIVEN TO AN IPS OFFICER OR IFS OFFICER WHO DESERTS INDIA WHILE PLACED OVERSEAS. ARE THEY PENALIZED FINANCIALLY OR IN ANY WAYS. THERE IS NOTHING TO BE SCARED ABOUT. TIME WILL TAKE ITS OWN HEALING. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING AND NO BODY CARES.

Where is the problem?
For years, RAW chiefs, used to a life of anonymity, would quietly fade into retirement after a whole career spent snooping in foreign lands. Some ended up as governors; others took to the seminar circuit and kept themselves busy writing papers or catching up on hobbies. But that wasn’t the course charted by Ashok Chaturvedi, the paan- and gutka-chewing head of RAW who retired shortly after the 26/11 terror strikes on Mumbai.

Chaturvedi headed the organisation for a little over two years and took the top job in controversial circumstances—it is said his proximity to then cabinet secretary B.K. Chaturvedi helped. As his retirement neared, while the government and its security experts were agonising over the all-round failure to prevent 26/11, Chaturvedi, it seems, was preparing for the pleasures of globe-trotting.

Between November 2008 and January 2009, the last months of his job, Chaturvedi is learnt to have done the rounds of the prime minister’s office (PMO) and the ministry of external affairs (MEA) wangling for a few “goodies” before retirement. And, as a special consideration, the government waived its own guidelines: not only did Chaturvedi become the first ex-RAW chief in over a decade to tote a diplomatic passport, he also got one for his wife Asha.

The passports (No. D 1021949 for Chaturvedi and No. D 1027182 for his wife) were issued on October 4, 2007, and their validity ran till September 30, 2009. The diplomatic immunity and other privileges he would have enjoyed on this as RAW chief should have automatically lapsed on his retirement—this is what was waived. Sources told Outlook these two passports were renewed again and continue to be valid to date.

There were a couple of problems with this. Only grade ‘A’ ambassadors—usually ifs officers posted in key countries like the UK and US—are allowed to hold diplomatic passports after retirement. The majority, who do not fit that bill, hold passports issued to ordinary citizens. In fact, all former RAW chiefs Outlook spoke to confirmed they had surrendered their diplomatic passports the day they retired. And their spouses weren’t entitled to diplomatic passports even while they were in service.

When contacted, this is what Chaturvedi said: “The passports were issued to me and my wife on the written instructions of then external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee. Their validity was extended by a year.” He said he and his wife continued to travel on the diplomatic passports, justifying it with the irrefutable logic of “passports miley hain travel karne ke liye (It’s for travel that we were given the passports)”.

Chaturvedi’s tenure also ensured that his wife toured extensively every time he went abroad on tour. Between 2007 and 2009, Asha went to Algiers, the US, the UK and Europe on several occasions. On each trip she used her diplomatic passport while all cost of travel was borne by the government of India. Chaturvedi too chalked up several trips, being abroad almost every month of his two-year tenure. In fact, during a crisis—when the Islamabad Marriot was bombed—Chaturvedi was returning from what was ostensibly an “official tour” of the US with his wife. Sources say the couple took time off from the official schedule, extending the trip to almost a month to spend time with family members residing in the US.

There’s more to the story. Chaturvedi’s tenure as RAW chief marked some of the worst years for the country’s external intelligence agency. He had been overlooked for promotion at nearly every stage of his career, but managed, as chief, to sabotage the careers of many Research & Analysis Service (RAS) cadre officers—among them P.V. Kumar, Jayadev Ranade, Ravi Nair and Sharad Kumar—wiping out decades of their collective experience in favour of his protege Sanjiv Tripathi. As scores of RAS officers quit the service or found themselves overlooked, Chaturvedi played around with the mandatory guidelines at the cost of the organisation’s operational effectiveness. He even got his own house declared a “safe house” and made RAW pay for its upkeep.

A classic example of Chaturvedi’s scant regard for operational guidelines was the foreign posting of the then joint secretary (Q)—a typical intelligence nomenclature for a post that oversees the coordination of foreign visits, liaison and other administrative responsibilities. This officer, a 1981 batch IPS officer from Chaturvedi’s own Madhya Pradesh cadre, was recently posted as a “declared” intelligence-gatherer in a western European nation after having been given an “undeclared” posting in that same country before.

A brief explanation: RAW officers are posted in Indian embassies and missions abroad under two categories, “undeclared” and “declared”. In “undeclared” postings, they go undercover as ifs officers, although their real assignment is to gather intelligence. But most embassies and high commissions also have “declared” posts, allowing Indian embassies to liaison with the intelligence agencies of that nation. As a rule, once an officer is posted in a country in an “undeclared” or covert post, he is never posted back there openly for obvious reasons. Chaturvedi broke that cardinal rule, creating a sticky situation for the MEA. “Operationally, it’s just suicide,” a senior RAW official says. “Once you have been posted as a covert operative posing as a legitimate ifs official, the host country is bound to raise questions when you return as a declared RAW officer.” But Chaturvedi couldn’t care less, and with then NSA M.K. Narayanan ruling the roost, these matters were hushed up.

There’s a connection to those diplomatic passports: the officer in question is the man who helped Chaturvedi and his wife obtain the passports.

Many in RAW had hoped that, post 26/11, the intelligence agency would do some introspection on the systemic rot that has set in. Instead, Chaturvedi chased petty post-retirement pleasures such as a Delhi Golf Club membership even as India’s security architecture was spiralling out of control. The slide stopped only after then Union finance minister P. Chidambaram was moved to the Union ministry of home affairs. He brought about a semblance of order.
But by then, quite some damage had been done. A vicious file noting from Chaturvedi sidelined P.V. Kumar, who was then next in line for chief. Chaturvedi was keen that his protege Sanjiv Tripathi, far down the pecking order, be chosen to head the agency. However, Chidambaram stepped in and brought in K.C. Verma, putting an end to one of the most sordid chapters in RAW’s long and chequered history.
And what of Chaturvedi? A month into retirement, Chaturvedi and his wife were off to London on their special diplomatic passports for a summer in the English countryside. Life has been quite good for the former RAW chief.

Those who knew of him believed Ravi Nair, senior intelligence man, lived a charmed life. An officer at the joint secretary level in the Research and Analysis Wing, Nair wangled plum postings, allegedly pocketed secret funds, was involved in several suspicious liaisons with women and, despite adverse notings from his seniors, managed to survive. However, Nair's luck finally ran out last week when embarrassed RAW officials were left with no other option but to recall him from Colombo. Feedback from the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka had it that the 1975 batch Research and Analysis Service (RAS) cadre officer was "involved" with a woman allegedly planted by the Chinese intelligence to entrap him. Tipped off, New Delhi wanted Nair out of Colombo in double quick time.

But how did Nair manage to hoodwink the system for so long? Insiders say it's courtesy a godfather he has in Shankaran Nair, the second RAW chief, and high connections in Delhi. Also the fact that RAW is slow and selective in conducting probes against erring officials.

Nair's activities had aroused suspicion prior to his posting in Colombo. He was at the agency's Chennai office when his relationship with a lady identified as "Ms Rao" from Mysore started attracting attention. She would visit Chennai on weekends and stay with Nair at his official bungalow in the city. Following reports from the Chennai office, then RAW chief P.K. Hormese Tharakan, as home ministry sources informed Outlook, immediately directed his then second-in-command and the current RAW chief Ashok Chaturvedi to conduct an inquiry and take suitable action.

It wasn't done. Which is why, when Nair's name was put forward for the Colombo posting, considered one of RAW's most sensitive stations, it went through without any second thoughts. Had Chaturvedi conducted an inquiry and taken action at Tharakan's behest, Nair wouldn't even have been considered for the crucial Sri Lanka posting and New Delhi could have saved itself the embarrassment Nair caused in Colombo.

Not that Colombo was Nair's first port of misdemeanour. At various other foreign postings, several allegations were filed against him. Among the key ones:

* During A.K. Verma's tenure as RAW chief in the late '80s, Nair was hauled up for financial irregularities. He was suspected to have pocketed "secret" funds on a foreign posting. Verma even noted on his file that Nair be subjected to a lie detector test. That alone should have spelt an end to Nair's career in a sensitive organisation like RAW. It wasn't to be.

* Years later, when posted in Bhutan, Nair was found to be "lacking in his work". In RAW, if an officer is found "lacking", it usually means an end to all foreign postings.But Nair was withdrawn prematurely from Bhutan only to be posted to Hong Kong, and continued to get plum, sensitive assignments, Sri Lanka being the latest one.

* When posted in Hong Kong, RAW received a complaint from Nair's wife that he was "involved" with a Chinese woman, following which he was recalled before his tenure ended. Interestingly, it was the surfacing of the same Chinese woman in Colombo that has led to Nair's recall from there now. Nair, though, denies these allegations as "utter rubbish".

* On an official trip to Japan, the country's secret service complained to Indian authorities about Nair's misdemeanours with a geisha. His senior on the trip, B. Raman, who later on retired as additional secretary, RAW, put on record strictures against him on his file.

* With Nair's family life in trouble, RAW bosses had questioned the wisdom of posting him to sensitive stations abroad. Yet, Nair went from the United States to Bhutan, Pakistan, Hong Kong, and then Sri Lanka.

Former RAW chief C.D. Sahay was worried that Nair could be easily compromised by foreign intelligence, and kept him away from all sensitive work during his tenure. When Sahay retired, Nair was back in circulation.

Ironically, the latest episode involving Nair has surfaced at a time when RAW chief Chaturvedi finds himself at the centre of yet another controversy. This relates to the case the cabinet secretariat recently launched under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) against retired RAW officer Major General V.K. Singh for authoring India's External Intelligence—The Secrets of RAW. While Chaturvedi pushed for Singh's prosecution, the Colombo capers of one of his colleagues has brought into sharp focus the RAW chief's failure to keep a tight administrative rein on his own cadre force. Now, say sources, even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed his reservations about the case against Singh under the OSA.

The Nair case yet again underlines the ills that plague RAW—the absence of financial and professional accountability, rampant nepotism, the bias in favour of IPS officers and the lack of adequate checks and balances when recruiting officers directly into the RAS. In fact, so exasperated is National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan that during an interaction at the recently concluded DG's conference (an annual police conference arranged by the Intelligence Bureau), he told Chaturvedi to cut down on the foreign junkets taken by senior RAW officers.

RAW's present troubles are far from over. With cases of nepotism and corruption becoming a norm, those within the agency wonder when the government will take corrective action. Preoccupied as it is with the Indo-US nuclear deal, RAW certainly doesn't seem top priority for the Manmohan Singh government. Chances are, the agency will be allowed to blunder along the same trajectory it has been following for years.

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Bete Nair: File notings Ravi Nair's seniors made on the errant RAW official

B. Raman, Retd Addl Secy, RAW, his senior on an official trip to Japan, made a file noting after the Japanese secret service complained of Nair’s misdemeanours with a geisha.

Hormese Tharakan, Ex-RAW chief: Ordered an inquiry after the agency’s office at Chennai reported suspicious liaisons between Nair and a "Ms Rao" from Mysore.

C.D. Sahay, Former RAW chief: During his tenure, kept Nair away from all sensitive assignments fearing he’d be easily compromised by foreign intelligence.

A.K. Verma, Former RAW chief: Made a file noting that Nair "be subjected to a lie detector test" after a case of his financial irregularities abroad came to light.

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Other Rotten Apples

Ravi Nair is not the first RAW officer to have come under the scanner... ...

* A senior RAW officer and his family went on a trip to Kathmandu in August and stayed at a hotel suspected to be funded by the D Company. His wife's business connections in Mauritius are also a matter of serious concern.

* National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan has disapproved of the number of foreign junkets being undertaken by senior officers. He has asked the RAW chief to cut down on such trips.

* A plan to consolidate the technical assets held by RAW's Aviation Research Centre with the National Technical Facilities Organisation has not borne fruit because RAW bosses want to hold on to the ARC planes for their private tours.

* The quality of intelligence being generated by RAW has been repeatedly questioned by the cabinet secretary as well as the principal secretary to the PM.

* A joint secretary level officer in RAW was first suspected of illegally tapping his senior officer's phone. After he was clerared by the PMO, objections were raised about the senior officer's wife working with the World Bank despite her having obtained the mandatory clearances. Insiders say his IPS colleagues are hounding the officer. His promotion has been stayed without adequate reason.B. Raman, Retd Addl Secy, RAW, his senior on an official trip to Japan, made a file noting after the Japanese secret service complained of Nair’s misdemeanours with a geisha.

Hormese Tharakan, Ex-RAW chief: Ordered an inquiry after the agency’s office at Chennai reported suspicious liaisons between Nair and a "Ms Rao" from Mysore.

C.D. Sahay, Former RAW chief: During his tenure, kept Nair away from all sensitive assignments fearing he’d be easily compromised by foreign intelligence.

A.K. Verma, Former RAW chief: Made a file noting that Nair "be subjected to a lie detector test" after a case of his financial irregularities abroad came to light.

Indian Spy Manmohan Sharma and his Chinese Sex Scandal - RAW official in Beijing recalled
An intelligence official from the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India's external intelligence agency, posted at the embassy in Beijing is being recalled for his alleged links with a Chinese language teacher.Manmohan Sharma, who was posted in Beijing a year back, will be returning to headquarters shortly. A departmental inquiry has been initiated."We will find out if there has been any misdemeanour on his part and get to the bottom of this sensitive matter," highly placed government sources told IANS. "In the meantime we have called him back."

May be the internet is spoiling Indian men's mind
Sharma's alleged liaison with his Chinese teacher came to light in February and in the last few months had caused embarrassment to embassy officials and also visiting officials from New Delhi.

"The matter was brought to the notice of the ambassador as well but there was one incident recently that precipitated his recall," admitted a senior government official, refusing to divulge details of the episode. This is not the first time that a RAW official has been called back because of these reasons.

In October last year Ravi Nair, a 1975 batch RAW officer, who managed to get plum postings despite being on scanner for a long time, was recalled from Sri Lanka for having alleged connections with a foreigner woman.

During his posting in Hong Kong, Nair had met a "foreigner friend" believed to be working for a Chinese spy agency prompting the authorities to ask him to come back.

However, within a brief time Nair was again given a foreign posting in Colombo where the woman also came and allegedly started staying with him, raising suspicion.

The officials of other departments, posted at the Indian high commission, sent reports about Nair to their respective departments paving way for his recall.

This is the latest scandal to hit the agency which is facing the heat after former official Major General (retd) V K Singh published a book last year that was highly critical of RAW's functioning.

Chinese girls visiting Indian must be aware of this Chinese sex crush by Indian guys especially police IPS officers and RAW officers.

He has been charge-sheeted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that registered a case against him under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) for alleged "wrong communication of information".Three years back a former RAW joint secretary (a senior official), Rabinder Singh, fled the country to the US, causing a lot of red faces in the intelligence establishment.

India's external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), has been hit by another crisis. A senior female officer, working as a Director in the training branch of the agency at Gurgaon, attempted suicide on August 19 by consuming rat poison outside the Prime Minister's Office. Nisha Priya Bhatia took the extreme step after being denied entry to register a complaint regarding her allegations of sexual harassment by some colleagues in the agency. Bhatia was frustrated at the inaction of the agency as well as the government for not taking any action about her complaints of being sexually harassed.

M M Sharma, a Director of Science & Technology Division of
> R&AW was videotaped by the Chinese intelligence officials while having
> sex with a prostitute in Beijing where he was posted in the Indian
> Mission. He was declared PNG and sent to India. No disciplinary or
> criminal action has been taken against him so far.

Kishore Jha, an IPS officer serving as Joint Secretary in
> R&AW tried to sexually exploit the wife of his IAS batch mate. On the
> intervention of the then Prime Minister, he was reverted to his parent
> cadre in Manipur. He managed to re-enter the agency after some time
> and while serving in Jodhpur office he tried to molest a lady employee
> of the agency under the influence of liquor. He was then transferred
> to the R&AW headquarters. Here too, he used double meaning words to a
> lady officer for seeking sexual favour. The matter was reported to
> then R&AW chief PKH Tharakan but no action was taken against Jha.
> Instead, he was posted as a R&AW official in Bonn (Germany).

An IPS officer serving as Joint Secretary in RAW tried to sexually exploit the wife of his IAS batch mate. On the intervention of the then Prime Minister, he was reverted to his parent cadre in Manipur. He managed to re-enter the agency after some time and while serving in Jodhpur office he tried to molest a lady employee of the agency under the influence of liquor. He was then transferred to the RAW headquarters. Here too, he used double meaning words to a lady officer for seeking sexual favour. The matter was reported to then RAW chief PKH Tharakan but no action was taken against Jha. Instead, he was posted as a RAW official in Bonn (Germany).

India’s external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has been hit by another crisis. A senior female officer, working as a Director in the training branch of the agency at Gurgaon, attempted suicide on August 19 by consuming rat poison outside the Prime Minister’s Office.

Nisha Priya Bhatia took the extreme step after being denied entry to register a complaint regarding her allegations of sexual harassment by some colleagues in the agency. Bhatia was frustrated at the inaction of the agency as well as the government for not taking any action about her complaints of being sexually harassed.

The Supreme Court of India has clearly recognized sexual harassment as a crucial problem faced by women workers and laid down detailed guidelines for prevention and redressal of this problem. But strangely, apart from constituting inquiries, no concrete action was taken to address Bhatia’s complaint. She had even written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the harassment she was facing from some of her male colleagues within the agency.

The state of rot in the agency can be gauged from what Bhatia had alleged. According to her statement, which was widely reported in the media, Sunil Uke, a joint secretary level officer of the agency offered her around Rs 30,000 on August 3, 2007 to spend a night with him in a hotel.

According to Bhatia, her repeated pleas of an inquiry into the sexual harassment charges were scuttled by RAW chief Ashok Chaturvedi himself. In fact, she even blamed Chaturvedi for using vulgar language to get sexual favour from her.

The RAW chief’s name has been under constant spotlight from sometime because of his failure to effectively lead the country’s premier intelligence agency.

So serious is the crisis within the agency that now a former RAW official has written a letter to the Prime Minister requesting him to order a CBI inquiry into the suicide attempt by Nisha Priya Bhatia and to setup grievances redressal cell in the PMO for RAW employees.

R K Yadav, a former General Secretary of RAW Employees Association in the Cabinet Secretariat, has alleged that Bhatia’s case is not the first instance of sexual harassment in the agency.

“This is not the first sexual harassment in RAW. There are many incidents in the past but most of the lady employees do not report due to fear of being sacked from service in the guise of secrecy,” Yadav’s letter, which is in possession of NewsX.com, states:

“The mindset of RAW officers is reflective of a sex oriented psyche in which they are working operationally. Most of the agents whom they developed are entertained with all these ethnic facilities like providing prostitutes for sex. This sadistic working culture has provoked many of them to exploit their own lady colleagues or they were exploited by foreign agents,” the letter adds.

According to Yadav, there are numerous instances of such exploitation. The former official has mentioned them in his letter, some of which are listed here.

* 1998: Suchit Dass, an IPS officer of Orissa cadre, was caught on camera on several occasions with a lady of the Bangladesh Mission by the surveillance team of the RAW. The lady was used by Bangladesh intelligence officials to recruit Dass as their agent while he was serving in the Indian Mission at Dhaka. Dass reverted to India on completion of his tenure. The lady was also sent by the Bangladesh intelligence to continue her liaison with Dass. She managed to get secret information from Dass but no criminal action was taken against him. Instead, he was simply reverted to his parent cadre after the exposure.

* 2006: An IPS officer serving as Joint Secretary in RAW tried to sexually exploit the wife of his IAS batch mate. On the intervention of the then Prime Minister, he was reverted to his parent cadre in Manipur. He managed to re-enter the agency after some time and while serving in Jodhpur office he tried to molest a lady employee of the agency under the influence of liquor. He was then transferred to the RAW headquarters. Here too, he used double meaning words to a lady officer for seeking sexual favour. The matter was reported to then RAW chief PKH Tharakan but no action was taken against Jha. Instead, he was posted as a RAW official in Bonn (Germany).

* June, 2006: Brigadier Ujjawal Dasgupta, Director in Computer Division of RAW was arrested for his alleged link with a lady CIA operative Rosanna Minchew working in US Embassy in Delhi. He was arrested on charges of espionage and is presently lodged in Tihar Jail.

* October 2007: Ravi Nair, a Joint Secretary of RAW was abruptly recalled from Indian Embassy in Colombo for his involvement with a suspected lady Chinese agent. According to intelligence sources, the lady got involved with Nair during his Bhutan stint. This liaison continued in Hong Kong and was finally detected in Colombo. Nair has a dubious past in RAW. He worked for more than four years in Pakistan which no other officer of the agency could ever complete due to ISI interference. There are allegations of his being hobnobbing with ISI. In the instant case of his involvement with a lady spy, no harsh action was taken against him by the current RAW chief Ashok Chaturvedi and curiously he was given a sensitive desk of North East.

* 2008: M M Sharma, a Director of Science & Technology Division of RAW was videotaped by the Chinese intelligence officials while having sex with a prostitute in Beijing where he was posted in the Indian Mission. He was declared Persona Non Grata and sent to India. No disciplinary or criminal action has been taken against him so far.

Meanwhile, in response to Nisha’s allegations, the Cabinet Secretariat issued a press release which blamed her for not cooperating with the committee instituted to inquire into her allegations against senior officials. On the contrary, the release suggested that she was mentally ill. It also details various complaints received against her from different officers in the agency.

The complaints ranged from insubordination, misbehavior, and abuse of authority to sending objectionable and offensive SMSs to senior government officials.

But Yadav’s claims that she is being portrayed as a psychiatric patient by RAW authorities as they want to save their skin in the current crisis.

While highlighting nepotism in the agency, the letter claims that there is rampant harassment and exploitation of RAW employees in general and women employees in particular.

The official has also accused the high-ups in the agency of overlooking merit while posting officers in critical regions like Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir. According to him, officers “who are to be mentally harassed are sent to hard stations to settle personal scores by the seniors.” Hence the objective of protecting India’s national interest has gone for a toss.

The letter further alleges that a fear psychosis in the agency has been created by some senior officials. The employees of the agency are working in a traumatic and pathetic state of mind due to absence of an administrative grievance redressal mechanism, Yadav pointed out.

Now it is up to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is already aware (as reported in the media) of some major blunders of the current RAW chief to address the crisis in the agency at the earliest.

The alleged presence of a widow in the official residence of Tripura's additional director general of police has led to controversy, forcing the government to probe the incident and ask the senior official to go on indefinite leave.

An official release of the Tripura home department said: "To ascertain the factual position of the incident, which took place in the official residence of ADG Kishore Jha here, state police chief Sanjoy Sinha will inquire into the matter and submit a report to the government within a week."
"Pending inquiry and the government's subsequent decision, the state government has asked Jha, a 1982 batch IPS officer, to go on leave from Friday."

Besides the presence of the middle-aged widow Jan 15 at the official residence of Jha, a driver of the Tripura State Rifles (TSR) was allegedly found tied with ropes in a separate room of the police officer's bungalow.

Main opposition Congress has threatened to launch a massive movement if the state government does not take stern action against Jha.
"A section of top police and civil officials were involved in various scandalous incidents involving women, but the Left Front government has remained a silent spectator. We will make it a big issue ahead of the 2013 assembly polls," Congress spokesman Ratan Chakraborty said.

The Union government has "prematurely" repatriated two senior IPS officers, in the rank of Additional Director General (ADG), to their parent cadre.

"Two Additional Directors General-- Kishore Jha (CRPF) and Somesh Goyal (SS- have been repatriated to their parent cadres of Manipur-Tripura and Himachal Pradesh respectively. The orders have been issued by the Union Home Ministry," official sources said.

While Jha, a 1982-batch officer, was empanelled in the Centre last year and had tenure till 2018

Gujarat cadre IPS officer M Sekar whose diligent investigation while on deputation to the CBI had exposed Harshad Mehta's multi-million stock market scam in 1992, has filed a petition before the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). Sekar, a 1983 batch IPS officer, was dismissed from service by the Union government in January this year on charges of corruption while in the CBI.

In his petition, Sekar has alleged that he had been victimised for his honest investigation in the stock market scam as he had tried to expose some powerful people involved in it. He has also alleged that the then CBI director, Vijay Ram Rao, was instrumental in ruining his career.

Talking to DNA, his advocate, PH Pathak, alleged that Sekar was victimised just because he had not obeyed the instructions of the then CBI director, Vijay Ram Rao, while investigating the scam.

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A role model in many respects, Kiran Bedi is the most admired woman of India. She broke new ground by joining the élite Indian Police Service in 1972, the first woman in India to do so. Her accomplishments as India’s first & highest ranking woman police officer and a philanthropist have established her as one of the most respected public figures today. Her humane and fearless approach has contributed greatly to innumerable innovative policing and prison reforms. She not only introduced a “Godly approach to jail inmates” with the introduction of yoga, meditation and discourses by various sections of religious groups to inculcate spirituality and human values amongst the under trials and convicts, men and women but also empowered them with education. Vanshika Gaba from Soul Curry spoke to Kiran Bedi about her approach to life

Amongla Aier, the first Nagaland lady to have joined the prestigious Indian Police Service (IPS).

Former top cop Kiran Bedi, whose name has been proposed by civil society members for the job of Chief Information Commissioner (CIC)

Three policemen including head constable Sandip Naik had approached the girl they on the street, allegedly a commercial sex worker standing by the roadside near Calangute beach, almost ten months ago and had threatened her of arrest if she failed to fulfil their demands.

While Naik sexually abused her inside the patrolling van, the other two constables prepared the clip and circulated it among their colleagues.

Three Goa police constables who have been found guilty of sexually abusing a girl inside a police van and allegedly preparing a video clip, are likely to be let off with minor punishment as there is no complaint against them.

"Police cannot initiate criminal action against the trio as there is no complaint against them. We are trying to trace the girl in the video clip. It may be consensual sex too. We can ascertain it only after taking her statement," superintendent of police and spokesperson for Goa police department Atmaram Deshpande told reporters here yesterday.

Three policemen including head constable Sandip Naik had approached the victim, allegedly a commercial sex worker standing by the roadside near Calangute beach, almost ten months ago and had threatened her of arrest if she failed to fulfil their demands.

While Naik sexually abused her inside the patrolling van, the other two constables prepared the clip and circulated it among their colleagues.

A departmental inquiry is on against all the three cops and disciplinary action has been initiated against Naik, who has been suspended, Deshpande said. However, the police official made it clear that in case of a complaint, the policemen could not be charged with rape but with molestation.

He also said that police could not take suo motto cognizance in the matter banking on the video clip.The police official said that the departmental probe will also check on how many policemen were having the video clip.

"To have a video clip in the mobile is not an offence but to circulate it is an offence under information technology act," Deshpande said.

Earlier, Calangute police inspector Nolasco Raposo had conducted an inquiry into the incident and submitted the report to superintendent of police (North) Bosco George following which he compiled another report based on which the head constable was suspended.

Police has few novel ideas to rape kids in India. Read the story of Mr. Rathore,

Haryana Director General of Police S P S Rathore

(From the story of the martial clan, the Rathores who ruled Marwar from Jodhpur till the merger of the Princely States with the Dominion of India in 1949, it is Sheoji's descendants who proudly bear the name, Rathore.)

Today Rathores are interested in joing police and military to keep up their legacy. However Rathore clan have another intention also - Child molestation.

Haryana Director General of Police S P S Rathore had formed the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association (HLTA) and become its president. The HLT A had enrolled more than 60 members, young boys and girls, mostly residents of Panchkula, for training in the game.

Ruchika Girhotra, then 15 years old, and her friend Reemu, were among them. Rathore used to visit the tennis courts in the evening

Ruchika Girhotra was to go to Canada for a few months and had informed Rathore of it. One day, around noon, Rathore visited their house to persuade her father not to interrupt the girl's training by sending her abroad as she was a promising p layer. He said that he would arrange special coaching for her. Rathore then asked the father to send her to his office the next day at 12 noon to discuss the arrangements for that. Ruchika Girhotra spoke to Reemu about these developments.

On the day of the incident, while the two young women were at the net, they were told by a ballboy that Rathore had sent word for the girl. Both went to meet Rathore, who was stated to have insisted that they accompany him to th e office. Rathore then apparently told Reemu to go and call the coach, T. Thomas. Reemu went to the rear of the building to call the coach, leaving the girl with Rathore, but Thomas waved from a distance indicating that he would not come. Reemu returned t o the office.

On entering the room Reemu found Rathore holding the girl's hand with one hand, his other hand encircling her waist, and she was struggling to free herself. On seeing Reemu, Rathore apparently got nervous and fell on his chair. Re emu was ordered to go again and get the coach. The victim wanted to leave the room but Rathore asked her to stay back. He once again ordered Reemu to get the coach. The girl then reached Reemu's side and ran out of the office. At this point Rathore told Reem u: "Ask her to cool down. I will do whatever she says."

The young women did not inform anybody of the incident as they feared that Rathore, who was an Inspector-General of Police then, would harass their parents. On August 14, the two went to the tennis courts early so as to avoid Rathore. Around 6-30 p.m., when they were to return from practice. Rathore summoned the girl again. The two did not go. Instead they decided to talk to their parents about this as the girl felt that Rathore had become emboldened after the August 12 incident.

Meanwhile, the Ruchika the victim was suspended from the tennis courts for alleged indiscipline with effect from August 13, that is, the day after the alleged molestation. Both the coach and the manager of the court wrote on the suspension order that they were not aware of any act of indiscipline by the girl, thus contradicting the claims made in the order, allegedly issued under directions from Rathore. Investigations by the CBI also revealed that no act of indiscipline by the girl had been officially recorded or inquir ed into.

Ruchika herself, unable to bear the harassment unleashed on her and her family, particularly on her younger brother Ashu who was arrested for several car theft cases slapped on him, committed suicide Dec 28, 1993.
Rathore, 68, who made sure his grin was in place every time he came before the media cameras, circumvented the system and the law through his powerful position in the Haryana police to evade arrest.

Ruckikas Friend Reemu who stood up for her friend Ruchika

How many poor kids have been molested by Mr. Rathore in the past? No one will know.

Why Police are able to get away with child rape and child molestation? Because India men at high places does not see a problem in child molestation. That is a way of life for men at power

I’ve been to Goa with my husband twice now. The first time was two years ago, and we weren’t married then. The second time was last week, during the 2009 Mumbai Xpress Rickshaw Challenge. Both times, we had senseless encounters with the police.

On the first occasion, we were staying in Anjuna. As we were leaving our room one night, we were approached by a group of three undercover policemen. They pulled my husband aside and started questioning him in Hindi. I could understand most of what they were saying, but my Hindi wasn’t good enough at the time to speak. Their questions consisted of the typical “What are you doing here?, Where are you from?, Who is she?, Why are you with her?”. I just stood there and said nothing.

The policemen decided that they would search our room for drugs. Two of them went inside with my husband. The other remained with me, and started questioning me. “Who is the guy you’re with?, Where is he from?, How long have you known him?, What is his job?, Why are you with him?”.

And then, the policemen’s true intention was revealed. “If we find drugs in your room, we’ll put him in jail. How much are you willing to pay to prevent that from happening?”. I was stunned.

Not long after, the two policemen returned with my husband. “Look, we found this in your room”, one of them said. He produced some hash. “Where in the room did you find it?”, I demanded. By this stage, I was in confused disbelief. “They didn’t find it”, my husband said. “They planted it there”.

Fortunately, the police had started realising that we were actually a legitimate couple from Calcutta (where we lived at the time) having a peaceful holiday in Goa. After a while, they dropped the matter and let us go. I, however, remained very disturbed for the rest of the night. It was my first encounter with the Indian police, and I lost a great deal of respect for them.

Now, two years later, the police decided to question my husband again. We’d had dinner on Baga Beach with the organisers of the Rickshaw Challenge and a few other participants, and were all on our way back to our hotel. We were staying at the Taj Vivanta hotel in Panaji, and we were travelling together in one large car.

The police had set up a nakabandi (road block) on the road from Baga Beach. Upon seeing my husband in the car, and asking us where we were going, the policeman demanded that we pull over. (A young looking Indian guy, claiming to be staying at a luxury hotel with a bunch of foreigners — an unlikely story, I’m sure they were thinking).

The policeman told my husband to get out of the car, and took him to the side of the road. Everyone in the car was wondering what was happening. However, an additional two years of living in India had made me a lot wiser this time. It’s simply because he’s an Indian with foreigners, I told them.

Feeling very irritated by the situation, I got out of the car to deal with it myself.

I stood there with my arms folded, glaring at the policeman. And yes, I was taller than him. He glared back at me. “Problem kyaa hai?” (What’s the problem?), I demanded to know. The glaring continued. “Kuch nahi” (nothing), he finally answered.

The whole interaction was done in less than a minute, and we got back into the car. By now, everyone’s wonderment had turned to astonishment. They were astonished that such a thing could happen, and astonished that I had dealt with it in such a way. It provided them with much excitement for the evening, and a new insight into “the real India”.

- July 23, 1991: Bhajan Lal-led Congress government takes over. He remains chief minister till May 9, 1996. During this period most of the alleged atrocities against Ruchika's family take place at Rathore's behest.

- Dec 21, 2009: CBI special court convicts Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case. He is sentenced to six months imprisonment and fined Rs.1,000. Media questions how he was let off with a minor punishment, that too after 19 years, in the case that forced the teenaged girl to commit suicide.

- Jan 15: CBI team from New Delhi starts investigations into the Ruchika case after registering three fresh cases against Rathore.

- Jan 25: High court grants interim bail to Rathore in fresh cases registered against him by CBI.

- Feb 8: Rathore attacked by a youth, Utsav Sharma, outside Chandigarh's district court complex while coming out after a court hearing. Attacked with a small knife, receives injury on face and neck.

- May 3-11: District and sessions court in Chandigarh holds continuous hearing on Rathore's plea opposing his conviction by the CBI special court and the CBI's plea seeking enhancement of his six months' sentence.

- May 25: Rathore arrested by CBI after district and sessions court dismisses his appeal against his conviction in a CBI special court. Court enhances his jail term to 18 months.

A sessions court in Chandigarh on Tuesday enhanced the six-month sentence given to former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore by a Central Bureau of Investigation court to one and a half years for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra 20 years ago. He has been arrested and being taken to Burail jail. Next course of action regarding Rathore's ailments will be depending upon jail authorities.

On May 20, Additional District and Sessions Judge Gurbir Singh fixed May 25 for pronouncing the verdict, saying he needed more time to complete the process of writing to deliver the judgment on all the three pleas.

Ruchika had killed herself three years after the incident by drinking poison.

The CBI is investigating whether Rathore drove Ruchika to suicide after she filed molestation charges. An inquiry by the Chandigarh administration has found that Ruchika was unfairly expelled from her school in 1990. Her family was repeatedly harassed and her brother was imprisoned on false charges.

The report also concluded that the expulsion took place under pressure from "an external influence".

The Special CBI court had earlier held Rathore guilty under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code. The court had sentenced him to six months imprisonment and had imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on him.

Rathore has been stripped off his meritorious police service medal.

Now, SPS Rathore can file a bail petition in the high court to fetch the bail.

“Mr Rathore caught hold of my hand. He pressed his body against mine. I tried getting rid of Mr Rathore by pushing him away with one hand which Mr Rathore was not holding. I was shocked and became nervous with the behaviour of Mr Rathore. In the mean time Reemu (Aradhana Gupta) came into the room and on seeing her Mr Rathore released me and fell down in his chair. Mr Rathore asked Reemu to go out of his room and bring Mr Thomas, the coach, with her. But she refused and then Mr Rathore rebuked Reemu loudly, asking her to bring the coach, Mr Thomas. Mr Rathore insisted that I stay in his room but I ran out. I told Reemu whatever Mr Rathore had done. She had also seen Mr Rathore misbehaving with me. I was so afraid and nervous that I asked Reemu what we should do now. We were afraid that since Mr Rathore is the Inspector General of Police, he may involve or harass our parents. Therefore, we decided not to inform our parents or anybody else about the incident. On August 13, we did not go to play. Next day, we went to play tennis and when we were leaving, the ball picker Mr Paltoo said Mr Rathore was calling me again. It was then that we decided to inform our parents. Reemu narrated the incident to my father and after that I went to her house and told her mother, Madhu.”

In all this, Rathore was not suspended for a single day. Instead, Ruchika’s family was harassed unrelentingly. Eleven cases were filed against her brother, Ashu, then 16, and now a transporter in Panchkula. Her father, Subhash Chander Girhotra, now 68, Rathore’s exact age, a manager with the Oriental Bank of Commerce, was threatened, harassed in office and left with no choice but to quit.

Aradhana Gupta -Nineteen years have passed. She’s married, has two children, whom she’s feeding quietly as the media throngs her Sector 6 home in Panchkula, a satellite township outside Chandigarh.

Neighbours and friends crowd the large living room as the children stare goggle eyed but 32-year-old Aradhana Gupta still blanches when she recalls the moment in 1990 when her friend, Ruchika Girhotra, then a bright-eyed 14-year-old with a dream to make it big in tennis, was molested by Shambhu Pratap Singh Rathore, then inspector general of police (IGP), Haryana.

As if in slow motion, the scene unfolds before her eyes, Rathore pulling Ruchika towards him and Ruchika struggling to free herself.

“When she was released from his grip, she ran out like someone possessed. She dusted her clothes wherever he had touched her. Later, whenever we talked about it, she would break down. I could see her spirit was being shattered,” says Aradhana, who was then only 13 but would counsel her friend daily, telling her not to worry. She would get justice one day.

Unfortunately, despite Aradhana’s battle, braving harassment and threats, it hasn’t happened. On December 23, after 400 adjournments in special CBI courts and over 40 adjournments in the high court and Supreme Court, Rathore was given six months imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000.

As he left the Chandigarh District Court with his lawyer wife, Abha, he even smiled, as if to mock the system he had once vowed to uphold. He even seemed optimistic that he would emerge victorious in reducing the punishment.

“I am filing an appeal against this order. Truth will prevail and I will win,” he said with complete lack of irony. For Aradhana, who had pursued the case since it was first filed by her mother Madhu Parkash, 60, in November 1997, in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, it was a rude shock.

One that was shared in an unprecedented outpouring of outrage against the judgement, with MPs in Parliament saying the punishment handed out to Rathore was too light and social activists demanding a retrial.

But then the case seemed doomed from the start, when despite an inquiry by then director general of police (DGP) R.R. Singh holding Rathore prima facie guilty of molesting Ruchika and his recommendation to the state government that a case be registered against him, chief minister Hukam Singh of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) ignored it.

Rathore, now 68, was even promoted as the additional DGP in 1994 when Bhajan Lal was the chief minister. It was just a few months after Ruchika committed suicide. Five years later, the INLD government led by Om Prakash Chautala made him the DGP of the state, where he stayed on till December 2000, despite the CBI chargesheeting him in the molestation case in January the same year.

In India if a powerful man tries to rape you, you have no freind other than internet.

See what happened to Ruchikas case and her rapist Rathore. Only internet public pressure convince the court to reopen the case.

Such was Rathore’s clout that he even managed to thwart efforts to lodge an FIR against him. On May 28, 1991, the Government okayed filing of a chargesheet against him but even that didn’t happen till June 30, 1992, when Legal Remembrancer R.K. Nehru said that the Haryana government was not competent to issue a chargesheet to Rathore and it would be appropriate to get an FIR registered instead.

That didn’t happen. For several months even the case file went missing from the government records though it was found later.

Ruchikas dad was forced to sell his Sector 6 house after Ruchika filed a complaint with the police, seeking registration of a molestation case. Goons would man their locality and their house would be attacked with stones.

Ruchika was stalked and even rusticated from Sacred Heart Convent School on grounds of “indiscipline”.

What next

- The Parkash family can seek a retrial, adding Section 306 of the IPC for abetment to suicide.

- Ruchika’s family is still hesitant to come out in the open, and hopes that the court will take notice and intervene in the case.

- Parkash’s lawyer Pankaj Bhardwaj says a retrial will be possible only through media-inspired public pressure.

Almost a prisoner in her own home, her family in ruins, her gleaming sporting future shattered, Ruchika felt there was nothing to live for, recalls Aradhana. “More than what happened to her, she was bothered about what her brother and father were passing through. She felt responsible for all that.” She committed suicide on December 28, 1993.

“I was busy with my BA exams and hadn’t spoken to her for some days,” says Aradhana, still shaking her head at the waste of a young life. Her family went underground, not even accessible to the Parkashs. Even Aradhana and her father were not spared. “When I was doing my MBA in Kurukshetra, my parents would get calls that someone has kidnapped me.”

Her father, a chief engineer with the Haryana Agriculture Marketing Board, was chargesheeted 13 times for alleged corruption and even demoted as superintending engineer.

But never did the family think of withdrawing the case. “We were threatened but we were never intimidated,” says Madhu, who was the first person Ruchika confided in after the molestation, having lost her own mother when she was just 12. They are disappointed and yet relieved.

Says Aradhana, “A message has been sent out that you might be a top police officer, but you can’t get away from your sins. The nation and the media are now with us. But this is not enough. We will fight until he gets a harsher sentence.”

They are examining their options, and as Parkash’s lawyer Pankaj Bhardwaj says, they believe it will be possible only thanks to public pressure. “He should have been charged under Section 306 of the IPC for abetment to suicide in which the maximum punishment is 10 years. But the CBI didn’t challan him under that section. We will still seek a retrial and ask for a harsher sentence,” says Bhardwaj.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court dropped Section 306 in 2003 and the CBI said it was investigating only charges under Section 354. “In the absence of adequate support from the agency, the high court rejected the application for abetment to suicide,” says Parkash.

Aradhana, Reemu to Ruchika, the lone witness to the molestation, and now settled in Sydney, has been in India for two months with her husband Aman Gupta.

Life has moved on but it hasn’t been the same. Her favourite sport, tennis, and so much else died along with Ruchika. “I remember Rathore used to watch us for hours everyday as we played tennis. We respected him as a senior police officer who was heading our tennis organisation.

But we could never tell that he looked at us in any way other than as his daughters. He used to chide us for wearing long skirts. “You can’t play in long skirts”, he would say. We had to fold them. “How could a police officer behave like that?”

It is a question that defies a humane answer. And it is an answer that sends chills down the spine of any parent.

-Nitish Katara, a management graduate, was seeing his classmate Bharati Yadav which her brother Vikas and cousin Vishal, didn’t approve of. Nitish was abducted and murdered by them on February 17,2002, and his battered, mutilated body was found three days later. A number of witnesses repudiated their initial testimony as Vikas was the son of influential criminal-politician D.P. Yadav. Thanks to intense media scrutiny, however, Vikas and Vishal were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008.

- Priyadarshini Mattoo, a 25-year-old law student, was raped and murdered on January 23, 1996, by Santosh Kumar Singh. He was acquitted three years later by a local court which led to a massive public outcry. The CBI challenged the judgement in the Delhi High Court on February 29, 2000. The matter was then dealt expeditiously and the judgement was reached in 42 days. It overturned the original acquittal order and held Singh guilty of murder and rape.

- Jessica Lall On April 29, 1999, Lall was shot dead at Tamarind Court by Manu Sharma, son of a senior Haryana Congress leader, when she refused to serve him a drink. Six years later, a Delhi court acquitted all those charged with Lall’s murder. A sting operation showed how the witnesses were pressured to turn hostile. Public anger led to the reopening of the case and Sharma was held guilty. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi High Court in 2006.